Hotel-register



(No Model.)

D. F. RIEGLE. HOTEL REGISTER.

Patented Sept. 25,

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HOTEL-EGISTER.

.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,581, datedSeptember 25, 1894.

Application filed May 8,1894. Serial No. 510,480. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID F. RIEGLE, of Portland, in the county ofMultnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Hotel-Registers, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in hotel registers, or any otherbook which is adapted for public display or public use.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims. 1

Referenceis to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of a book. bound in accordance with theinvention, the said book being open and the binding being projectedbeyond the side edges of the leaves. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig.l,in which the cover is projected beyond both the sides and top andbottom edges of the book leaves. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of thebook closed, in which the projecting portions of the cover or bindingare constructed to fold outward it' desired; and Fig. 4 is a partialtransverse section, taken practically on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3,illustrating the adaptation of a transparen-t material as a face for theinner or outer surfaces of the backs of the cover of a book or both.

In carrying out this invention, the pages A to be written upon, or whichmay contain printed matter of any kind, are bound within a book back B,which back may be of any suitable or approved material, and is providedwith the usual side squares B. The binding may be accomplished in theusual manner, but the novelty of the invention consists primarily inmaking the squares B of the book of greater area than the leaves of saidbook,-

C of the squares of the cover are adapted to contain advertisements,upon either the inner or squares of the cover by means of a hinge of anyapproved character as illustrated in Fig. 3, in which event when thebook is filled and is to b e filed away the extensions of the bindingmay be readily severed from the body, thus reducing the space necessaryfor the storing of the book.

It will be understood that advertisements may be produced upon the outerfaces of the extension of the squares of the book in like manner and inlike location as upon the inner faces of the extension. By this meanswhenever a book is opened the inside advertisements are prominentlydisplayed, the outer ones being in View when the book is closed, andthey may be very artistically exe-` cuted, and the advertisements neednot be placed upon the blotters of hotel registers as heretofore, andwhen the blotters are dispensed with between the leaves of the register,a greater number of leaves adapted for actual use may be contained inthe same bulk than when blotters are employed.

Any form of blotter, a detachable one, for example, may be used in thehotel register bound in accordance with this invention; or a blotter maybe bound between each two leaves if parties so desire. Furthermore itwill be observed that the extended margins of the book binding squareswill serve to protect the bound portions of the book. It will also beunderstood that a cover of, the character above described may be appliedto any book adapted for public display or use.

In order that the advertisements shall be protected from wear incidentto the opening and closing of the book, the said advertisements may beand preferably are covered with a transparent material E, such as micafor example, this material being securedto the cover either by beingintroduced in pockets therein, or by being cemented to the cover,tacked, or otherwise applied.

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Having thus described my invention, I a hotel registeror like bookhaving its covers claim as new and desire to secure by Letters providedbeyond the leaves with severably Patenthinged extensions containingtransparently 1. As an improved article of manufacture, coveredadvertising panels,whereby when the t5 5 a hotel register or like bookprovided beyond book is to be filed away the extension may be its leaveswith severably hinged extensions severedtherefrom,substantially asdescribed. Ahaving exposed advertising panels, whereby when the book isto be iled away said exten. DAVID F. RIEGLE. sions may be severedtherefrom, substantially Witnesses: 1o as described. L. O. IvEs,

2. As an improved article of manufacture, JERRY KESSLER.

